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Deepak Blames America

The media look within to explain the sick delusions of the Mumbai killers.

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Dorothy Rabinowitz

Updated Dec. 1, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET

If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren't going to be deprived of the familiar, either. Namely, ruminations, hints, charges of American culpability that regularly accompany catastrophes of this kind.

Soon enough, there was Deepak Chopra, healer, New Age philosopher and digestion guru, advocate of aromatherapy and regular enemas, holding...